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1994—Incorporated as CYM and purchased 120 Lake Drive
1995—Moved classes from YMCA and Northland Library to newly renovated classroom
space.
1996—Incorporated National Music Education Standards into Curricula.
1997—Initiated Community Outreach Program.
1998—Student’s performance televised on KDKA Children’s Hospital Telethon.
1999—Hosted the first GEM Awards, a celebration of young performers.
2000 & 2001—Students featured at PSO Season Opening Night concert.
2001—Revised curricula to meet the school’s new Music Literacy Objectives.
2001—Chairman Gerald McGinnis and wife Audrey endowed the PSO’s Fiddlesticks
Program in honor of CYM.
2002—Purchased 1971 Concert Grand Steinway Piano from the PSO, the piano featured
on opening night in Heinz Hall.
2002—Opened Annex for faculty and student recitals and additional classroom space.
2003—Collaborated with the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society and composer Burkhardt
Reiter in composing and performing a chamber music piece for CYM’s advanced
violinists.
2004—Performed the National Anthem at PNC Park before a Pitttsburgh Pirates game,
continuing to do so in each of the following years.
2005—CYM's advanced violinists performed as group soloists with the Pittsburgh
Symphony at a Fiddlesticks concert, playing Concerto for Two Violins by
J.S. Bach.
2006—CYM's advanced violinists performed as group soloists with the Pittsburgh
Symphony at the Watson Institute's Casually Classic, playing Violin Concerto
in a, by Antonio Vivaldi.
2006—CYM opens it second site at 434 Beaver Street in Sewickley.
2006—A group of six CYM students perform at the Holiday Open House during the
Christmas Holidays at the White House, Washington, DC.
2007—CYM returns to the White House with a group of fourteen students to
to perform during the Christmas Holidays.
